It’s December 21st, the shortest day of the year; either the middle of winter or the start, depending on your view (here in Ireland, winter really only kicks in from mid-December onwards). The lucky annual lottery winners had a fantastic clear frosty morning to witness the solstice dawn in Newgrange, but the [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Nollaig Shona Daoibh
Posted in Ireland, tagged Christmas, daoibh, dhaoibh, dhuit, duit, Glending, Newgrange, Nollaig Shona, solstice on December 21, 2007 | No Comments »
The WAN is the new LAN
Posted in EC2, GoogleApps, SimpleDB, broadband, data, tagged WAN, LAN, VPN, security, SaaS, cloud on December 17, 2007 | No Comments »
While discussing SimpleDB ,Nick Carr points to the polar opposite views that the two computing behemoths, Google and Microsoft, hold as to the future direction of cloud computing. Google’s Schmidt sees an eventual 90/10 split with the cloud being the home to most data and processes while as expected, Microsoft’s Raikes points to the [...]
SimpleDB + S3 = distributed document-centric database
Posted in AmazonAWS, EC2, S3, SQLite, SimpleDB, Web2.0, data, excel, news, tagged amazon, Brewer's Conjecture on December 14, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I’m a database man. I’ve worked on or about most variations on the theme, from roll-your-own flat files, to hierarchical, to CODASYL network databases, to the current crop of relational and MOLAP platforms. Of late, I’ve being investigating what I think will be the future of database technology, the distributed document-centric database. [...]
Zimki - the spirt lives on …
Posted in JavaScript, Ruby, Web2.0, news, programming, tagged AppJet, Facebook, Horuku, hosting, Rails, RoR, zimki on December 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Although Zimki is to shut down on Christmas Eve, the ideas behind the service live on. Two new offerings, Horuku and AppJet, offer variations on the idea of hosted application development/deployment.
AppJet, funded by Paul Graham’s Y-Combinator, is very similar to Zimki, being a server-side JavaScript platform. No details yet as to what [...]
PALO ETL-Server, first sighting …
Posted in ETL, Palo, Talend, kettle, tagged HSQLDB, IMPPalo, Palo ETL-Server on December 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was wrong. I figured Jedox would build their new ETL server on one of the existing open source ETL project code-bases, either Talend or Pentaho’s Kettle. Instead, the new alpha ETL server code which has just been uploaded to SourceForge is based on neither and appears to have been developed by another [...]
Firefox tune up time again …..
Posted in EC2, Firefox, S3, SQLite, Web2.0, tagged Add-ons, profile, Google Browser Sync, EC2 UI, S3Fox, NoScript on December 5, 2007 | No Comments »
This morning Firefox just got slower and slower; clicking on a link or a text box took ages to respond; using online WYSIWYG editors became next to impossible; I was also getting an error when attempting to connect to Google Sync.
I checked the usual suspects; internet connection OK; did a quick HijackThis scan and analysis [...]
What's happening (Twitter et. al.)- You: First sub-prime mortgage defaults, next sub-prime credit card defaults http://tinyurl.com/5ccfd2 (via Twitter)
- You: Spilling rain outside, no -6C frost tonight; no magic winter wonderland walk in the woods tomorrow; back to the wet and the muck. (via Twitter)
- You: A regular expression visualiser http://osteele.com/tools/reanimator/ (via Twitter)
- You: @antgalvin I'll upload a picture when my broadband returns, too painful to do so under ISDN speeds (via Twitter)
- You: @antgalvin I last saw such "beards" in my teens, it obviously requires a heavy frost at the time the fungus fruits, we live & relearn (via Twitter)
- You: ..tree branches, the fungus fruiting threads are microscopic and can only be seen when covered in frost, known as Jack Frost's Beard. (via Twitter)
- You: The woods today glistened with hoarfrost covered spider webs, but more spectacular where the frosted "beards" of fungus that covered dead... (via Twitter)
- You: OS ETL tools Talend and Jitterbit compared http://tinyurl.com/5v6mpe (via Twitter)
- You: Got thru to Omnitel, problem local it seems, my local transmitter 127.19.20.1 aka Fr. Ryan's, needs rebooting,"Finding Fr Ryan" is the prob. (via Twitter)
- You: A Bullfinch pair feeding on the seedheads in the flowerbed outside my window. (via Twitter)
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